OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Biology Letters is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A review of clothing microbiology: the history of clothing and the role of microbes in textiles	45
Expression levels of the tetratricopeptide repeat protein gene ttc39b covary with carotenoid-based skin colour in cichlid fish	24
Pythons in the Eocene of Europe reveal a much older divergence of the group in sympatry with boas	20
Evidence supporting the microbiota–gut–brain axis in a songbird	19
Fish from urban rivers and with high pollutant levels have shorter telomeres	19
Born to be young? Prenatal thyroid hormones increase early-life telomere length in wild collared flycatchers	18
The ecological consequences of a pandemic	17
The probability of fusions joining sex chromosomes and autosomes	16
A new somasteroid from the Fezouata Lagerstätte in Morocco and the Early Ordovician origin of Asterozoa	14
Energetic mechanisms for coping with changes in resource availability	14
Kangaroos display gazing and gaze alternations during an unsolvable problem task	14
Male coercion and female injury in a sexually cannibalistic mantis	14
Do avian species survive better on islands?	14
Experimental parasite community perturbation reveals associations between Sin Nombre virus and gastrointestinal nematodes in a rodent reservoir host	13
Leaf hydraulic safety margin and safety–efficiency trade-off across angiosperm woody species	13
Morphological and phylogeographic evidence for budding speciation: an example in hominins	13
Landscape-level toxicant exposure mediates infection impacts on wildlife populations	12
What you see is where you go: visibility influences movement decisions of a forest bird navigating a three-dimensional-structured matrix	11
Three-dimensional dental topography and feeding ecology in the extinct cave bear	10
Condition-dependent responses of fish to motorboats	10
Contrasting effects of Miocene and Anthropocene levels of atmospheric CO₂on silicon accumulation in a model grass	10
Coastal regions of the northern Antarctic Peninsula are key for gentoo populations	10
Shrinking before our isles: the rapid expression of insular dwarfism in two invasive populations of guttural toad ( Sclerophrys gutturalis )	9
Anti-predator behaviour depends on male weapon size	9
A new non-mammalian eucynodont from the Chinle Formation (Triassic: Norian), and implications for the early Mesozoic equatorial cynodont record	9

Biased transformation erases traditions sustained by conformist transmission	9
Acute bottlenecks to the survival of juvenile Pygoscelis penguins occur immediately after fledging	9
Use of nursery areas by the extinct megatooth shark Otodus megalodon (Chondrichthyes: Lamniformes)	8
Convergent dental adaptations in the serrations of hypercarnivorous synapsids and dinosaurs	8
Queen pheromone modulates the expression of epigenetic modifier genes in the brain of honeybee workers	7
Socially cued anticipatory adjustment of female signalling effort in a moth	7
P_O₂of the metathoracic ganglion in response to progressive hypoxia in an insect	6
A songbird inhibits blinking behaviour in flight	6
Can paternal effects via seminal fluid contribute to the evolution of polyandry?	5
Male survival advantage on the Baja California peninsula	5
Captive-bred populations of a partially migratory salmonid fish are unlikely to maintain migratory polymorphism in natural habitats	4
Multiple cleaner species provide simultaneous services to coral reef fish clients	4
Mate competition during pseudocopulation in shipworms	3
Special feature: measuring components of ecological resilience in long-term ecological datasets	3
The meaning of mass extinctions and what the fossil record tells us about angiosperm survival at K-Pg: a reply to Hagen (2024)	2
Unravelling a diversity of cellular structures and aggregation dynamics during the early development of Myxococcus xanthus	1
Density-dependent dispersal reduces conflict over the sex ratio	1
The reduction in relative brain size in the domesticated dog is not an evolutionary singularity among the canids	1
Novel rebreathing adaptation extends dive time in a semi-aquatic lizard	1
Chicks produce consonant, sometimes jazzy, sounds	1
Acorn ant exhibits age-dependent induced defence in response to parasitic raids	1
Genetic and evolutionary divergence of harbour seals ( Phoca vitulina ) in Iliamna Lake, Alaska	1
Supersize me: hypotheses on torpor-assisted prehibernation fattening in a boreal bat	1
More allogrooming is followed by higher physiological stress in wild female baboons	1
A critique of Thompson and Ramírez-Barahona (2023) or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the fossil record	1
The functions of leg muscles, structures and mechanisms in running	1
How far might plant-eating dinosaurs have moved seeds?	1
Hyperbolic discounting underpins response curves of mammalian avoidance behaviour	1
Dogs with a vocabulary of object labels retain them for at least 2 years	1
Bat consumption by holostean fishes in the Eocene Lake Messel: insights into the trophic adaptability of extinct gars and bowfins	1
Stress produces negative judgement bias in cuttlefish	1
Ionizing radiation has negligible effects on the age, telomere length and corticosterone levels of Chornobyl tree frogs	1